The US Open will decide Rahm’s teammate on the Spanish men’s Olympic team

Fortune, capricious as usual, brought it about, from development and outcome of the US Open which will be held from June 13 to 16 at Pinehurst Resort & CC (North Carolina), The second place of the Spanish men’s team that will participate in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games depends on it.

Based on the Olympic classification system, that season definitely ends in contention at the US OpenJorge Campillo and David Puig are the only players with options to take the aforementioned second place –the first corresponds to Jon Rahm–, because they are found in positions 116 and 117 in the World Ranking.

The known regularity of Jorge Campillo has come to fruition over the past few months, including options to repeat the Olympic experience after attending Tokyo 2020 last minute replacement Jon Rahmwho gave positive for Covid only six days until the Olympic event begins.

The golfer from Cáceres He did not attend the US Open this time, Therefore, he will not be able to accumulate more World Ranking points in this decisive week where the men’s Olympic qualification period ends.

Yes, the Barcelona native will play in the American ‘major’ David Puig, enrolled in LIV since 2023 –whose tournaments are not counted in the World Ranking–, who for his part has had an amazing career in recent months, participating in competitions from other circuits producing points before qualifying for the US Open through a specific prior tournament for this purpose.

At this decisive moment, David Puig’s options to go to Paris at the beginning of August passed because he made the cut at the US Open. If not, Jorge Campillo will once again be part of the Spanish men’s Olympic team.

Note that the Olympic golf qualification period is from June 13, 2022 to June 17, 2024 –men’s category– and from June 20, 2022 to June 24, 2024, in the case of the women’s category.